MCSC - CEOss

MCSC is the principal Marine Corps activity involved in all facets of weapons systems
acquisition, life cycle management (inclusive of all budget and contracting functions),
and post-deployment logistics support. The CEOss business model ties together 1300
government customers across 24 technical offices with a vendor pool of 27 prime
firms and over 150 participating firms. CEOss operates under a defined set of business
rules, predicated upon competitive sourcing, in conjunction with a back office suite
of estimating tools, document generators, and invoice management features residing
on an enterprise architecture known as eP2. This application allows the ACSS office
to provide end-to-end (e2e) procurement services – from requirements generation
to task order management and close out – through a service center organization that
employs only 7 full time staff (notably, 2 of these are 1102 contracting interns).
This office provides for competition and award of all technical services requirements
using the eP2 application to allow customers to input requirements from any of the
principal MCSC offices using secure protocols that facilitate on-line, collaborative
management of documents and attendant processes by customers, ACSS staff, and participating
prime vendors. Through this business enterprise, the MCSC has expanded their customers’
access to highly-qualified, technical services firms – enabling dozens of companies
previously excluded from doing business with the Command to economically participate
as in both prime and subcontractor roles.